On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 09:04:19AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
Bruce Nagel <nage...@sdf.org> writes:
Looking through the 'pkgdb-change' page, I'm missing 2 of the 3 files
/etc/mk.conf has:
PKG_DBDIR=/var/db/pkg
so that line just needs to be changed to:
PKG_DBDIR=/usr/pkg/pkgdb
I have no /etc/pkg_install.conf file or /usr/pkg/etc/pkg_install.conf -
should I create them and just include PKG_DBDIR=/usr/pkg/pkgdb in them?
Or do I need to do something more (is there other content needed in
those files)?
I would say yes, and then all the tools should agree on the pkgdb.
pkg_admin check: pkg_admin can't open
/var/db/pkg/gdk-pixbuf2-2.40.0nb2/+CONTENTS: No such file or directory
Start looking at the pkgdb, both of them. Learn what normal packages
look like. If there is a dir with no control files, just remove it.
pkg_admin rebuild-tree: pkg_admin: Cannot read +CONTENTS of package
gdk-pixbuf2-2.40.0nb2
Same problem as above.
_NetBSD-pkgdb check found: FATAL: TWO copies of PKG_DBDIR found
So it's definitely the split-brain package databases problem.
/usr/sbin/pkg_add -V gives: 20191008
/usr/sbin/pkg/pkg_add -V gives: 20210308
Do I need to fix anything there?
probably not, except that updating the base system to 9.2 is probably a
good idea. But with the PKG_DBDIR lines it should be ok.
So you need to dig in and see what is in both databases, and probably
you can move the dirs from /var/db/pkg to /usr/pkg/pkgdb or the other
way around (either is ok, but you must have 1 and you must have all 3
configs pointing to the chosen one. I prefer /usr/pkg/pkgdb at this
point.) This is sort of a manual merge process.
Then the script should fix up the embeedded paths. Read and understand
the script - I tried to comment it well.
I made sure all 3 places had the some /PKG_DBDIR=/usr/pkg/pkgdb in them.
I did the 'manual merge' from /var/db/pkg and /var/db/pkg.refcount to
/usr/pkg/pkgdb and /usr/pkg/pkgdb.refcount. I removed the older
versions of duplicates in /usr/pkg/pkgdb. I removed the old /var/db/pkg
and /var/db/pkg.refcount directories.
I ran the script with 'check' and it found no problems.
I ran the script with 'migrate' and it reported no problems after
running.
pkg_admin check complains about failing md5 checksums for a variety of
things including the libffi that's been an issue all through this.
pkg_admin rebuild-tree complains about not being able to read the
+CONTENTS of gdk-pixbuf2-2.40.0nb2
pkgin appears to update and appears to install e.g., vim but vim does
not get installed, isn't in /usr/pkg/bin, it still doesn't appear to
actually do anything.
What do I investigate or try next?
Thanks,
Bruce
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